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1. Cyberpunk is a science-fiction subgenre characterized by countercultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanized, high-tech future.
2. Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on high tech and low life.
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An example of cyberpunk in the book is how they have all kinds of new, advanced technologies and opportunites, yet many people still live as hoboes, looters, pimps, and hos.
Another example in the book is how Gully lives in the slum-like conditions and act like a savage, while he could be clean and live well the next day. The technology is there, but the human conditions are sometimes poor.
In the book, people are generally free to do and go where they please due to the technology, but their human rights, such as the right to practice religion or women's rights are no longer being honored as they are today.
Also Presteign is riding around in carriages to show he is rich, which is really slow transportation. Today people buy jet planes to show they are rich, quick transportation. It is a change in showing social statis. They have high techonology,but they choose to live a low life.
The goverment is manipulative in getting what they want by torturing people for information and uses the Central Intelligence to basically brainwash and alter people's brains.
1. Cyberpunk is a science-fiction subgenre characterized by countercultural antiheroes trapped in a dehumanized, high-tech future.
2. Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on high tech and low life.
Examples: